THERE WAS A TIME WHEN NORTONVILLE HAD BEAUTIFUL GREEN FIELDS ON JUST DRY LAND FARMING

In the early days of Nortonville, local farmers followed the lead of Nephi's David Broadhead, to plant and yield grain without irrigation. The Broadhead family found success on the land south of Nephi known as the "Levan Ridge", and eventually-dry land wheat farming became so popular there that Utah State University built a facility to study what they thought couldn't be done. As may be shown in the first photograph, Gary and Alma Jones are standing in a tall field of grain on the Jones family farm in Nortonville, Juab County. That was in June, 1967 when there was plenty of subsurface moisture. As I recall, we had Elmer Broadhead cut the grain, making it a full circle of Broadheads helping us to do dry land farming over a hundred years. Although Alma has been gone for many years, as a part-time historian, I appreciate the Juab County Extension office keeping Dad's name on the records. I assume, he is somewhere taking care of similar type fields of dreams.